Plopsaland De Panne

Plopsaland De Panne
	Main entrance
place	De Panne , Belgium
opening	April 21, 1935 (Meli-Park) ; April 20, 2000 (Plopsaland)
Visitors	1.265 million (2013)
surface	30 hectares
Website	www.plopsalanddepanne.be
	Plopsaland De Panne
	Plopsaland De Panne
	Location of the park

51.080833333333 2.5986111111111Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 51 ″ N , 2 ° 35 ′ 55 ″ E

Plopsaland De Panne is a theme and amusement park in De Panne on the West Flemish coast on the French border. The Kusttram has a stop in front of the entrance. The park opened on April 20, 2000. Before (from 1935 to 1999) Plopsaland was called "Meli-Park". The park was named after the locations of the children's programs Kabouter Plop and Samson en Gert by Studio 100 .

Plopsaland De Panne mainly offers family attractions: dark rides such as Het Bos Van Plop , de Ploptuin and De Draak or some rides. These usually look like the ones in the TV programs of Studio 100. The children's series are recorded in Plopsaland De Panne. Other attractions include the train, the petting zoo and the carousel .

history

Meli Park

The Meli Park in the summer of 1935 by Alberic Joseph Florizoone, a honey producer , was founded. Bees and beekeeping are a theme throughout the park. From around 1990 the Meli-Park gradually lost its image and its visitors. Therefore, the "Florizoones" sold the park to Studio 100. Meli products can still be bought in some of the park's shops today.

Plopsaland De Panne

Plopsaland De Panne opened its doors on April 20, 2000. All attractions are themed according to one of the soap operas , children's series or the studio's music group . There are attractions from Kabouter Plop, Samson en Gert and Big en Betsy, among others .

In 2006 Plopsaland De Panne opened three new attractions: SuperSplash , SpringFlyer and the K3 Museum . In 2007 the Kabouter-Plop-Zone was renewed with two new attractions. In 2009 the new roller coaster Anubis: The Ride was created . In summer 2011 the new Maya the Bee Land was opened.

Park structure

The park is divided into several parts or zones:

Entrance area
Leprechaun Plop Garden
Castle zone
Pirate area
"Anubiszone"
Wizzy and Woppy Zone
"Jumping area"
Big and Betsy Farm
The fairground of Samson and Gert

The park has five roller coasters without rollover and one roller coaster (Anubis: The Ride) with three rollover and a catapult launch that accelerates from 0 to 90 km / h in less than two seconds. The roller coaster "Dongo's race" (in the Wizzy & Woppy zone) is the oldest in Belgium and was built in 1976. The "SuperSplash" (a water slide) was built in 2006.

Attractions

roller coaster

Surname	Type	comment	Construction year	opening
Anubis: The Ride	Gerstlauer Launched Coaster	Second launched coaster from Gerstlauer	2009	2009
Viktor's Race	Zierer Large Tivoli Coaster	The entire track was exchanged for the 2014 season and replaced with brand new rails	1976	1976
De Draak	Mack Rides Powered Coaster		2004	2004
De Vleermuis	Caripro Batflyer		2000	2000
Roller skaters	Vekoma Junior Coaster		1990	1990
Heidi: The Ride	GCI wooden roller coaster	Opening planned for 2016, postponed later	2017	2017

Water rides

Surname	Type	Construction year	opening
Wickie The Battle	Mack Rides Interactive Water Ride	2012	2013
Waterfietsen	Pedal boats
SuperSplash	Mack Rides Water Coaster	2005	2006
Het Bos van Plop	Water Dark Ride	1972	1972
De Boomstammetjes	Mack Rides Log Flume	1988	1989
Kaatje zoekt Eendje	Mack Rides boat trip	1999	2000